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Friday the 13th Points...

A few quick thoughts:

1) I guess Judd Gregg looks
pretty lame now, having accepted the Commerce Department Cabinet position after
playing Hamlet —and
then realizing that he would forever be shunned by the Right Wingers who now
call themselves the Republican Party if he went through with it. The not
voting on the Stimulus bill really didn’t help him either. Not a guy New
Hampshire voters will now run to for a courageous stand in the future…like
during next year's re-election battle.

2) I hope Obama finds
another Republican
Senator from a state with a Democratic Governor to
nominate. It’s clear now that the Republicans intend to employ a scorched
Earth policy towards the country. If they can’t have power here, they’ll
just hope the nation is decimated by their ability to stymie real change and
run against failure in four years. It seems a lock that the only way to
bypass this is to find a 60th vote in the Senate, assuming that the Minnesota
Senate trial ends with Franken still the winner there.

3)
Melissa Leo has my vote for Best Actress.
See Frozen River if you have a
chance. It’s one great little movie for any film lover. She’s
wonderful in it, as usual, and the fallout of our economy and our immigration
policies are evident in the landscape of the film for those filmgoers who are
politically minded.